Thread for Outland LONDON, UK Applications!

[scottishmaple]

When i click on Application Received link (under PR application section rather than Sponsorship, which is 'Decision Made') it gives me the date it arrived in Miss. and also says 'Medical Results received' below that - is that a good indication that London VO now has my file?

I'm a little confused how you have got Medical Results received on your status already. Didn't you just get sponsorship approval on 11 Feb? It takes about 2 weeks for your file to show up at London after sponsorship approval and then your medicals are delt with (or so I believe). If this status is correct, that was quick and good for the speed of your application.

 

[Sweden]

I'm a little confused how you have got Medical Results received on your status already. Didn't you just get sponsorship approval on 11 Feb? It takes about 2 weeks for your file to show up at London after sponsorship approval and then your medicals are delt with (or so I believe). If this status is correct, that was quick and good for the speed of your application.

The system changed in November, now the medicals results are transmitted electronically, so it's a lot faster to match them with the applications. Some applicants can already see "medicals have been received" before the stage 1 approval. Also - with the new validated forms, it seems that some parts of it (not the physical file, but the electronic file) arrive in London before the actual file.
Hopefully with the improvements along the line, the waiting time decreases...
Good luck!
Sweden

 

[EMAPLE]

true - ecas doesn't always reflect how things are going. Mine went from Application received to Decision Made, no in process or anything like this. Hopefully you're near the end!
Good luck,
Sweden

Thanks Sweden!

 

[BCgirl2012]

Hi London thread

I hope you don't mind me peeking here

I wonder if any of you had to do a medical extension through London? Our medical office is London, so I thought maybe I can get some ideas here about how long we should wait. We heard some news back finally after more than 8 months of no activity in our VO that they've asked London to grant an extension.

Some people say it will take 2-3 months. I'm just hoping someone can tell me about their better experience.

Thanks!

 

[DGT]

Hi London thread

I hope you don't mind me peeking here

I wonder if any of you had to do a medical extension through London? Our medical office is London, so I thought maybe I can get some ideas here about how long we should wait. We heard some news back finally after more than 8 months of no activity in our VO that they've asked London to grant an extension.

Some people say it will take 2-3 months. I'm just hoping someone can tell me about their better experience.

Thanks!

Hey! I believe an extension takes about 2 months! It's also great news if they've asked for a medical extension because that means everything else in your application has checked out. You're nearly there!

 

[BCgirl2012]

Hey! I believe an extension takes about 2 months! It's also great news if they've asked for a medical extension because that means everything else in your application has checked out. You're nearly there!

Cool! Happy to hear that. I'll keep telling myself that 2 months will pass like a breeze Though I can't lie: a month is even better! Keeping fingers crossed!

 

[DGT]

It makes me really sad to look back on these forums and see the processing times from a few years back. 3 months for London. 3! Even Accra was processing in 4 to 6 months. Makes me wish my wife and I hadn't decided to go back to Scotland in 2009!

 

[SaMoS]

It makes me really sad to look back on these forums and see the processing times from a few years back. 3 months for London. 3! Even Accra was processing in 4 to 6 months. Makes me wish my wife and I hadn't decided to go back to Scotland in 2009!

and go back 100's of years and you wouldn't have even needed a visa...Although being a Scot you'd have probably been on a ship to Oz ;-)

S.

 

[scottishmaple]

The system changed in November, now the medicals results are transmitted electronically, so it's a lot faster to match them with the applications. Some applicants can already see "medicals have been received" before the stage 1 approval. Also - with the new validated forms, it seems that some parts of it (not the physical file, but the electronic file) arrive in London before the actual file.
Hopefully with the improvements along the line, the waiting time decreases...
Good luck!
Sweden

Ah ok. I understand. thanks for clearing that up

 

[sfeire]

It makes me really sad to look back on these forums and see the processing times from a few years back. 3 months for London. 3! Even Accra was processing in 4 to 6 months. Makes me wish my wife and I hadn't decided to go back to Scotland in 2009!

I did the same a while ago, it's so depressing! I seriously don't know what London are doing anymore. There doesn't seem to be any DMs recently. No movement. Ugggghhhh

 

[mickmerf1]

Its probably a plot to keep us all in the uk a little longer , so we all remember how fantastic things are here right now!!!!..........Not. :'(

 

[mickmerf1]

Omg did I sound fed up in that last post lol , well I'm well and truly tired of waiting as everyone else is, what a rollercoaster of emotions the whole process is, Whewwwwww!!!!!!!!! Hmmmmm I feel better now

 

[DGT]

and go back 100's of years and you wouldn't have even needed a visa...Although being a Scot you'd have probably been on a ship to Oz ;-)

S.

Actually, more Scots went to Canada! In the middle of the 19th century, over 50% of Scottish emigration (not counting moving to England of course!), was to the US followed closely by Canada (largely thanks to forced emigration as highlanders were forced from their land to make way for sheep), New Zealand (the nation with the highest proportion of Scots per capita other than Scotland at the time!) and Australia! Not that Scottish emigration was insignificant. After all, it was the Scot Lachlan Macquarrie who turned Australia into what it is today. A nation, rather than a penal colony. It's worth noting too, that the first 2 prime ministers of Canada were Scots (John MacDonald and Alexander McKenzie) and that another 3 of the next PM's of Canada hailed from Nova Scotia where 59% of the population identified themselves as of Scots heritage at the time.

I kinda wish my ancestors were the ones kicked off their land and sent to Canada! My wife's family are actually more Scottish than me which is ironic. When her great grandparents first arrived in Cape Breton they didn't even speak English or Scots. Only Gaelic!

Canadian history is actually really fascinating. I'd recommend to anyone that they pick up anything they can read about pre-confederation Atlantic Canada.

 

[Sniprat]

I did the same a while ago, it's so depressing! I seriously don't know what London are doing anymore. There doesn't seem to be any DMs recently. No movement. Ugggghhhh

Apparently they are doing nothing, from what I can gather on here. They had better sort themselves out because we have just had our stage one decision made (waiting for the letter to confirm what date it was from).

 

[Sniprat]

Actually, more Scots went to Canada! In the middle of the 19th century, over 50% of Scottish emigration (not counting moving to England of course!), was to the US followed closely by Canada (largely thanks to forced emigration as highlanders were forced from their land to make way for sheep), New Zealand (the nation with the highest proportion of Scots per capita other than Scotland at the time!) and Australia! Not that Scottish emigration was insignificant. After all, it was the Scot Lachlan Macquarrie who turned Australia into what it is today. A nation, rather than a penal colony. It's worth noting too, that the first 2 prime ministers of Canada were Scots (John MacDonald and Alexander McKenzie) and that another 3 of the next PM's of Canada hailed from Nova Scotia where 59% of the population identified themselves as of Scots heritage at the time.

I kinda wish my ancestors were the ones kicked off their land and sent to Canada! My wife's family are actually more Scottish than me which is ironic. When her great grandparents first arrived in Cape Breton they didn't even speak English or Scots. Only Gaelic!

Canadian history is actually really fascinating. I'd recommend to anyone that they pick up anything they can read about pre-confederation Atlantic Canada.

Ah, the good oul Scots. You even provided most of the population for our wee country. My own surname, Roy, is originally Scots, from the clan Robertson I believe.